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Slava Makarov Q&A

The stats presented for the KV-5 so far are not final, only the first phase of testing.

If the changes made to the KV-5 prove successful, then other PMM tanks will get the same treatment.

The two vehicles selected for the Warhammer 40k treatment were chosen do to their resemblance to existing tanks from that franchise. It was great experiment for WG in creating premium camo for regular tanks, though do to a lack of time they were not able to complete all of the features with them they wanted.

Initially there weren’t meant to be any changes to maps with 1.0 beyond the graphical enhancements, but the map devs used the opportunity to make some changes. Not all of the planned changes were put in however, as that would have meant pushing the patch release back by half a year.

Province is pretty unplayable beyond Tier V, and Slava will be bringing it up with the development team.

WG admits there are glaring issues with lower tiers, however the huge amount of tanks at those tiers means a lot of work will need to go into them.

Frontlines will see some pretty dramatic changes going into the future. As it stands it is poorly optimized and it is hoped that the issues with it can be worked out and reintroduced on a possibly more permanent basis along side other massive changes to the game that the developers are referring to as “WoT 1.5”.

The Battle Royal mode was mostly made by the developers on their own time, they were pretty enthusiastic about it. Players seemed to like it as well, so there may be some more experimentation with it later on.

Are SPGs toxic? No, but they can certainly be thought over some more.

General chat will not be making a comeback. It had 30-40% of the support team locked up. Things have been much easier since it was switched off.

There is an extensive plan for a rework to the crews in-game. Specifics such as perks can’t be revealed at this time, however.

Murazor still works for WG as a consultant to the balance team, and as Slava’s subordinate.

The proposed changes to the ST-I line haven’t been completely abandoned, just put on hold as other issues have taken priority.

The idea of a combined European branch also hasn’t been completely abandoned. So far about three ideas for top tiers have been put up, but not much else. Still, it’d be a nice addition in order to put in machines that belong to nations without major tank development.

Slava can’t reveal the trade-in list for the KV-5 atm, but it will include some machines that are rarely put up for sale.

The Warhammer skin for the KV-2 can sort of be seen as a prototype for the future (planned) 3D customization that WG wants to introduce.

Light, original and mini-medium lines have non-paper tanks up to tier 4.
TDs up to tier 3.
SPGs 5,7,8.
First 3 premiums existed.
LT9 is fake, LTX is entirely Soviet.
The rest are historical projects/concepts, except maybe for some of the guns.

You have blueprints and photographic refrences or information regarding these? Anyone can make a tech tree filled with vehicles which existed but without solid information it is next to impossible to progress development for such vehicles

They really shouldn’t be charging gold for trade ins- yes the KV-5 as is now is a weak tank not as strong as say the Defender, but when it was new it WAS a top line tank. The owners (i.e. customers) should not be charged for Wargaming ruining their balance with power creep and matchmaking changes. But Russians don’t understand customer service they just hammer away at all problems.

“The Battle Royal mode was mostly made by the developers on their own time, they were pretty enthusiastic about it. Players seemed to like it as well, so there may be some more experimentation with it later on.”

could say that most guys in the SEA english forums weren’t thrilled with it. some of us (including me) completely hateabhor this BR fad

“General chat will not be making a comeback. It had 30-40% of the support team locked up. Things have been much easier since it was switched off.”

was not aware G-chat was closed. IIRC SEA still has G-chat. maybe because we’re relatively still civil about it (beyond the usual spammers and guys who grinded so much they forgot the mods are watching)

About this battle royale mode, I am seriously concerned that too many players who don’t understand teamplay at all and just want to do some “pew pew pew” or players who are so skilled that they hate to carry their potato teams all the time might switch over to this mode almost exclusively, because it literally removes the entire teamplay-factor from WoT.

The thing is, the skilled players might get bored faster with the game because of this mode without noticing it, while the bad players will not learn anything for the classic game modes and keep failing in them, leaving the classic game modes for good.

I don’t know. I just don’t like it. Frontline is still team based. This is not. It’s a different game, actually.

Couple things
1) I can’t see my MoE under the barrel cover on my KV2 (R)

2) Please don’t use stats from “supertest” or anywhere else to determine if a tank is good for public use, any time I’ve been in public tests, it’s just been a boat load of russian kids running around in tier 10 russian god tank meds, full crew skills, full gold ammo, best consumables, improved equipment, slaying and dominating EVERYTHING, using their god armour turrets and post 1.0 maps made for turret peekaboo.

3) there is a major flaw in supertesting it would seem. JPZE100 gets released nerfed. WTFE100 gets released OP, Batchat, hellcat, type 59, now 268-4 all have been scourges at one time or another, that’s a FAIL. Superpershing was SO FAIL you gave us all a gold refund.

4) logic is to increase the tier limit for kv5 but reduce side and rear armour?.

Or are you the one not seeing it? You keep going and whine against a brick wall. Maybe one day that brick wall will move… (Especially if you keep whining on a third-party website, not directly affiliated with WG, that surely will move mountains…)

At least I can enjoy my game, and when I don’t I just play a different game.

Preferential Match Making was an important selling point when these premium tanks were sold. Unless WG offer full refund of original purchase price, seems unfair to those who paid for these premium tanks that offer selling points no other tanks have.

There is a claus everyone who buys a premium agrees to stating that the tank remains property of wargaming, it basically means the tank is on lease to you and they will change it as they feel appropriate, which i personally disagree with such ‘get out of jail free’ tactics employed by the legal team but until wargaming stop adding and rectify what already is, then unfortunately such problems will continuously exist.

The support team is still shit, they have not heard of freedom of speech and still ban people for alleged insults. Because if a player is actually cheating, using aimbot and called out for it, it is not actually an insult as it is the truth.